This chapter illustrates how wisdom lives in the present with the future in mind. The consequences of a present course of action are always considered before embarking.

When I consider the personal, family, and spiritual destruction that follows those who heed the strange woman’s honeyed and oiled words (Pro. 5:3), I flee like I would flee the plague (cf. 2 Tim. 2:22).

Prov. 5:4 -- "sharp as a two-edged sword" is the strange woman -- to lick her honeyed words is to head down the path of suicide.

Trappers in Alaska's past occasionally discovered their lines raided by
wolves. To rid themselves of the thieves, they would dip a sharp, double-edged
knife in honey, allowing several layers to freeze onto it. Then they
planted the knife, blade up in the snow near a trap the wolves have
raided. The smell of the honey attracts the wolves who begin to lick it
off the blade. As a wolf licks the frozen honey, the cold numbs
their tongue. By the time they have licked the honey c…